Cuban

Hispanics in the United States

Perhaps most striking was the growth in the country’s number of Hispanics, defined by the U.S. government as a “person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin,” regardless of skin colour. From 1990 to 2000 the Hispanic population in the United States rose by nearly 60 percent, from 22.4 million in 1990 to 35.3 million in 2000,...

...Hispanic group in the United States. Their numbers increased by 54 percent during the first decade of the 2000s, from 20.6 million in 2000 to 31.8 million in 2010. Puerto Ricans (4.6 million) and Cubans (1.8 million) were the second and third largest groups, and their numbers also showed dramatic increases—36 percent and 44 percent, respectively. Smaller numbers of Hispanics hailed from...